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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| steep | lofty |
| musty | impaired by damp or mildew : moldy |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| conflagration | fire |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| magnitude | great size or extent |