GRE Word List
CONTAGION
a contagious disease
The meaning of the word contagion is a contagious disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| faculty | ability |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |