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 |
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| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |