GRE Word List
PROGNOSIS
the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case
The meaning of the word prognosis is the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| 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) |
| icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
| lode | waterway |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |