GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trappings | outward signs |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| harass | exhaust |
| veer | to change direction or course |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |