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adulterate
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    The unadulterated honey is thicker and less sticky.
    unadulterated = pure
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    I don't like my crème brûlée adulterated, because then you can't taste through to the quality of the ingredients.  (source)
    adulterated = corrupted of made less good by adding a foreign or inferior substance
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    The old man thereupon led me off to Churchill's only beer parlor (a place I would normally have avoided) and introduced me to wolf-juice: a mixture which consisted of something called Moose Brand Beer liberally adulterated with antifreeze alcohol obtained from the soldiers at the Air Base.  (source)
    adulterated = made impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
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    I don't suppose you have any unadulterated vegetables?  (source)
    unadulterated = pure (without anything added)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unadulterated means not and reverses the meaning of adulterated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Fauji cement was reputed to be reasonable and not too adulterated with additives to crumble in Himalayan weather.  (source)
    adulterated = made inferior by adding an inferior substance
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    He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product.  (source)
    adulterate = corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
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    It is my girlfriends here in Joburg that have taught me how to give parties, keep a close eye on the help, and just overall make the graceful transition to wifehood and adulteration.†  (source)
    adulteration = the act of corrupting, debasing, or making impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The story in Justice concluded by saying that Lorenzo Daza did not leave San Juan de la Cienaga at the end of the last century in search of better opportunities for his daughter's future, as he liked to say, but because he had been found out in his prosperous business of adulterating imported tobacco with shredded paper, which he did with so much skill that not even the most sophisticated smokers noticed the deception.†  (source)
    adulterating = corrupting, debasing, or making impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
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    It is strange that sometimes, even now, I remember unadulteratedly a certain morning when I touched my friend's wrist (as if by accident, and he pretended not to notice) as we passed on the stairs in school.†  (source)
    unadulteratedly = in a manner that is pure or complete
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unadulteratedly means not and reverses the meaning of adulteratedly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I didn't cut this fella off for the sheer unadulterated pleasure of it, although it is an excellent weight-loss strategy.  (source)
    unadulterated = pure
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    Cuba had food rationing and allotments of coffee adulterated with ground peas, but no starvation, no enforced malnutrition.  (source)
    adulterated = made less good by adding an inferior substance
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    And on all of them that want to adulterate the pure white blood of the South.†  (source)
    adulterate = corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
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    Even Mary Burns, who no doubt taught her daughters the value of family, found that they honored her training of them by keeping to themselves, as if her involvement would be an adulteration.†  (source)
    adulteration = the act of corrupting, debasing, or making impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
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