GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
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| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
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| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
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| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
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