GRE Word List
ASEPTIC
preventing infection
The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| quarry | game |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |