tang-, tact-, tast-, ting-, -tig -tag, -teg-

1. Not transmissible by direct or indirect contact; not communicable: "Devin used an antiseptic on his hands to provide an anticontagious condition."
2. The prevention of transmitting a disease by bodily contact: "As a nurse in the hospital, Sonja and other nurses, took anticontagious precautions as much as possible to avoid spreading diseases from one patient to another one."

A condition in which the client experiences a loss of the sense of touch or feeling: "The patient was reassured that the atactilia which he was experiencing was transitory and would not last long."

1. To achieve an objective: "Lorene attained her high school diploma by completing her home work and striving to learn as much as possible about the subjects she was studying."
2. To arrive at, to reach, as by persistence and the passage of time: "We attain our goal when we reach it."
3. Etymology: from attingere, ad- + tangere, "to touch, to reach".

A cancellation of civil rights: "In former times, a conviction of treason, or a felony of a person, could result in an attainder or a condition of having lost one's civil rights."

Achieving an objective, a goal, or a level of success: "An attainment is usually accomplished with hard work and skills that have been acquired by training."

To dishonor or to disgrace by passing judgment of death or of being a criminal: "Cedric was attainted when the court convicted him of murdering his wife and two children."

Being affected by a conviction or being charged with a crime or misdemeanor.