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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superciliouscoolly and patronizingly haughty
siltloose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter
whima capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy
grazeto feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton
raptlifted up and carried away
unscathedwholly unharmed : not injured
flutedhaving or marked by grooves
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facetiousjoking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish
disfigureto impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries