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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| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
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| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| sonic | utilizing, produced by, or relating to sound waves |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |