GRE Word List
MIASMA
a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease
The meaning of the word miasma is a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease.
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|---|---|
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
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| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
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