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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| practical | of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal |
| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| acme | the highest point or stage |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |