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 |
|---|---|
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
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| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| ebullient | boiling |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| passe | past one's prime |