GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
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| firebrand | a piece of burning wood |
| pore | to gaze intently |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |