GRE Word List
CONTRABAND
illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling
The meaning of the word contraband is illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| limpid | marked by transparency (see transparent |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |