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 |
|---|---|
| gnarl | snarl |
| opportune | suitable or convenient for a particular occurrence |
| commonplace | commonly found or seen : ordinary |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| wreak | bring about |