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 |
|---|---|
| victuals | food usable by people |
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |