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.
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| demented | mad |
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| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| deliberate | to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully |
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| equity | justice according to natural law or right |