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 |
|---|---|
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| blackball | to vote against |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| occident | west |
| maroon | a dark red |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |