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 |
|---|---|
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| raconteur | a person who excels in telling anecdotes |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |