GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |