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.

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satesatisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy
skittishlively or frisky in action : capricious
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cabalthe contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government)
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perturbto cause to be worried or upset : disquiet
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