GRE Word List
VITIATE
to make faulty or defective : impair
The meaning of the word vitiate is to make faulty or defective : impair.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| affected | artificial; pretended |