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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| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |