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exciting a similar feeling or reaction in others
- an infectious giggle that got the whole class laughing
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“Infectious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infectious. Accessed 7 Oct. 2022.
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The first known use of infectious was in 1534
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