GRE Word List

ASEPTIC

preventing infection

The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.

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galleya ship or boat propelled solely or chiefly by oars: such as
affablebeing pleasant and at ease in talking to others
putrefyto make putrid
wrestto pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements
slackento make less active : slow up
dinghya small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat
persistto go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning
pyromaniaca person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania
scrapsfragments of discarded or leftover food
physiologicalof or relating to physiology