GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| belligerent | inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness |
| predetermine | foreordain |