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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|---|---|
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
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| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| append | attach |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
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