GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| verbalize | to express something in words |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| allegiance | the obligation of a feudal vassal to his liege lord |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |