GRE Word List
ASEPTIC
preventing infection
The meaning of the word aseptic is preventing infection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| legato | in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones) |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| pomposity | pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| abnegation | denial |