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 |
|---|---|
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |