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 |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| feud | a mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate (see inveterate |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| demented | mad |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |