GRE Word List

ASEPTIC

preventing infection

The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.

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mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
wreakbring about
pensivemusingly or dreamily thoughtful
pandemicoccurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population
motifa usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts)
bidto offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance
behooveto be necessary, proper, or advantageous for
potiona mixture of liquids (such as liquor or medicine)
threadbarehaving the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby
drossthe scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal