GRE Word List
HYGIENE
a science of the establishment and maintenance of health
The meaning of the word hygiene is a science of the establishment and maintenance of health.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
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