GRE Word List
ASEPTIC
preventing infection
The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.
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| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |