GRE Word List
ADULTERATE
to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element
The meaning of the word adulterate is to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slapdash | haphazard |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| fraudulent | characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : deceitful |