GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
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| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| archaeology | the scientific study of material remains (such as tools, pottery, jewelry, stone walls, and monuments) of past human life and activities |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |