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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| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |