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 |
|---|---|
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| peerless | matchless |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |