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 |
|---|---|
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| realm | kingdom |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |