GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |