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 |
|---|---|
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| brawny | muscular |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |