GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
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| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |