GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| fauna | animal life |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |