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 |
|---|---|
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| narrative | something that is narrated : story |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| distant | separated in space : away |