GRE Word List
ASEPTIC
preventing infection
The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| sophist | philosopher |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |