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 |
|---|---|
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| invalid | not valid: |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |