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Plague

/plˈeɪɡ/
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(noun) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.

Rats carry the plague.
More often than not, famine is accompanied by plague.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The bubonic ____ killed millions of people across Europe during the fourteenth century.

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