GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |