GRE Word List
DYSENTERY
a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection
The meaning of the word dysentery is a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection.
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| mammal | any 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 |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| molt | to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically |
| demise | death |
| whimsy | whim |