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 |
|---|---|
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| bifurcated | divided into two branches or parts |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |