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 |
|---|---|
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |