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 |
|---|---|
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony (see felony |
| nocturnal | of, relating to, or occurring in the night |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| demise | death |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |