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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |