GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| enduring | lasting |
| quorum | a select group |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |