GRE Word List
ASEPTIC
preventing infection
The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.
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| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |
| savant | a person of learning |
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| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| distend | extend |