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 |
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| adamant | unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
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| sober | not intoxicated |
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| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| iniquitous | characterized by iniquity |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
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