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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grategrating
distinctionthe act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference
prizesomething offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance
longevitya long duration of individual life
seemlygood-looking
dauntto lessen the courage of : cow
emaciatedvery thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness
acutecharacterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset
materialisma theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter
supinelying on the back or with the face upward