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 |
|---|---|
| reputable | enjoying good repute : held in esteem |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |