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 |
|---|---|
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| agog | full of intense interest or excitement : eager |
| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |