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 |
|---|---|
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| retrench | cut down |
| unique | being the only one : sole |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| reek | smoke |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |