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 |
|---|---|
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| invincible | incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued |
| contrite | feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc. |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |