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 |
|---|---|
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| grotto | cave |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |