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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |