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Day-67 (Pestilent)

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Word:
Pestilent

Status:
Adjective

Meaning:
Destructive of life, or injuring or endangering society; causing displeasure or annoyance, or infecticious or contagious(of a disease).

Sentences:
1) Proper handwashing can help prevent the most pestilent diseases.
2) Pestilent reporters hound after him day and night.

Origin:
Middle English, from Latin pestilent-, pestilens, pestilential, from pestis.

First use:
14th century

Synonyms:
catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible

Antonyms:
noncommunicable, nontransmissible.

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