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 |
|---|---|
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |