GRE Word List
GERONTOLOGY
the comprehensive multidisciplinary study of aging and older adults compare geriatrics
The meaning of the word gerontology is the comprehensive multidisciplinary study of aging and older adults compare geriatrics.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| lode | waterway |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |