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 |
|---|---|
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| peerless | matchless |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| faculty | ability |
| fabricate | invent |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |