GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| spangle | a small plate of shining metal or plastic used for ornamentation especially on clothing |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| apostate | one who commits apostasy |
| asymmetric | having two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |