GRE Word List
PROPHYLACTIC
guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection
The meaning of the word prophylactic is guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| studied | carefully considered or prepared : thoughtful |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| minuscule | very small |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |