GRE Word List
NUTRITION
the act or process of nourishing or being nourished
The meaning of the word nutrition is the act or process of nourishing or being nourished.
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symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
impromptu | made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised |
potion | a mixture of liquids (such as liquor or medicine) |
protuberance | something that is protuberant |
fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
relegate | to send into exile : banish |