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 |
|---|---|
| verge | brink |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |