GRE Word List
CONTAMINATE
to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association
The meaning of the word contaminate is to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| maroon | a dark red |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |