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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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| nebula | any of numerous clouds of gas or dust in interstellar space |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |