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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| estranged | having lost former closeness and affection : in a state of alienation from a previous close or familial relationship |
| exegesis | exposition |
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| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| auroral | dawn |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |