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 |
|---|---|
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |