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 |
|---|---|
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| slew | a large number |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| epicurean | of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |