GRE Word List
TAINT
to contaminate morally : corrupt
The meaning of the word taint is to contaminate morally : corrupt.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| grill | to broil on a grill |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |