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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| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| privy | private |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |