GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| euphoria | a feeling of well-being or elation |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| solicit | to make petition to : entreat |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |