GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| terminology | the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |