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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hoaxto trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous
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embossto raise the surface of into bosses
discordlack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas)
indolentaverse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy
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percussionthe act of percussing: such as
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defileto make unclean or impure: such as
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