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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ossify | to change into bone |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |