GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
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| satellite | a celestial body orbiting another of larger size |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| dazzle | to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| motley | variegated in color |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |