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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| judiciary | a system of courts of law |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |