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 |
|---|---|
| bookish | of or relating to books |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| medium | something in a middle position |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |