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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| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| malefactor | one who commits an offense against the law |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |