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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|---|---|
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| imbibe | drink |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| verity | the quality or state of being true or real |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| estranged | having lost former closeness and affection : in a state of alienation from a previous close or familial relationship |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |