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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|---|---|
| fallow | of a light yellowish-brown color |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| commonplace | commonly found or seen : ordinary |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| noisome | noxious |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |