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 |
|---|---|
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| impromptu | made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |