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 |
|---|---|
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| dingy | dirty |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |