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 |
|---|---|
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| quail | any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
| facade | the front of a building |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |