GRE Word List
EFFLUVIUM
an invisible emanation
The meaning of the word effluvium is an invisible emanation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| healthy | enjoying good health |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| demure | reserved |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |