GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| jibe | to be in accord : agree |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| gust | the sensation of taste |