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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| remit | to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |