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 |
|---|---|
| gazette | newspaper |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |