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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| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| pliant | pliable |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |