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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|---|---|
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| uproar | a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| maritime | of, relating to, or bordering on the sea |