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 |
|---|---|
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| relent | to become less severe, harsh, or strict usually from reasons of humanity |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| puerile | juvenile |
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| harass | exhaust |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |