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.
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| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| wrench | to move with a violent twist |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
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| overwhelm | upset |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
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