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 |
|---|---|
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| lax | loose |
| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |