GRE Word List
NURSE
a person who cares for the sick or infirm
The meaning of the word nurse is a person who cares for the sick or infirm.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |