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 |
|---|---|
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |