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 |
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| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
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| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| bouillon | a clear seasoned soup made usually from lean beef |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
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