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 |
|---|---|
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| beleaguer | besiege |