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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| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| serrated | notched or toothed on the edge |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| vigilant | alertly watchful especially to avoid danger |
| contrive | devise |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |