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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| contamination | xxx/x | Noun, Noun |
| defile | x/ | Noun, Verb, Noun |
| corrupt | x/ | Noun, Adjective, Verb |
| sully | /x | Verb, Name, Verb |
| infect | x/ | Verb, Verb, Adjective, Name |
| cloud | / | Name, Noun, Verb |
| contaminate | x/xx | Verb |
| tarnish | /x | Noun |
| untainted | x/x | Adjective |
| expunge | x/ | Verb |
| malign | x/ | Adjective |
| ruin | /x | Noun |
| lingering | /xx | Adjective |
| stench | / | Noun |
| reek | / | Noun |
| stain | / | Noun |
| rancid | /x | Adjective |
| smear | / | Noun |
| dilute | x/ | Adjective |
| influence | /xx | Noun |
| banish | /x | Verb |
| eradicate | x/xx | Verb |
| stink | / | Noun |
| obliterate | x/xx | Verb |
| marring | /x | Verb |
| exonerate | x/xx | Verb |
| remove | x/ | Verb |
| poison | /x | Noun |
| festering | /xx | Adjective |
| expose | x/ | Verb |
| diminish | x/x | Verb |
| disavow | xx/ | Verb |
| affect | x/ | Verb |
| destroy | x/ | Verb |
| impugn | x/ | Verb |
| eliminate | x/xx | Verb |
| purge | / | Noun |
| jeopardize | /xx | Verb |
| cause | / | Noun |
| dishonor | x/x | Noun |
| whiff | / | Noun |
| erase | x/ | Verb |
| perception | x/x | Noun |
| fetid | /x | Adjective |
| purify | /xx | Verb |
| invalidate | x/xx | Verb |
| permeate | /xx | Verb |
| dispel | x/ | Verb |
| trace | / | Noun |
| blotch | / | Noun |
| wipe | / | Verb |
| sanitize | /xx | Verb |
| spoil | / | Noun |
| vitiate | /xx | Verb |
| disassociate | xx/xx | Verb |
| ineradicable | xx/xxx | Adjective |
| undue | x/ | Adjective |
| blackening | /xx | Noun |
| ruination | /x/x | Noun |
| smell | / | Noun |
| cleanse | / | Verb |
| disqualify | x/xx | Verb |
| muck | / | Noun |
| tampering | /xx | Noun |
| offending | x/x | Noun |
| taste | / | Noun |
| harm | / | Noun |
| corruption | x/x | Noun |
| perpetuate | x/xx | Verb |
| expel | x/ | Verb |
| unsullied | x/x | Adjective |
| ooze | / | Noun |
| pollute | x/ | Verb |
| vestige | /x | Noun |
| suppress | x/ | Verb |
| detriment | /xx | Noun |
| putrid | /x | Adjective |
| ridding | /x | Verb |
| leach | / | Name |
| neutralize | /xx | Verb |
| distaste | x/ | Noun |
| contagion | x/x | Noun |
| nullify | /xx | Verb |
| negate | x/ | Verb |
| seeped | / | Verb |
| impairing | x/x | Verb |
| plague | / | Noun |
| residual | x/xx | Noun |
| purity | /xx | Noun |
| squelch | / | Noun |
| baleful | /x | Adjective |
| siphoning | /xx | Noun |
| repudiate | x/xx | Verb |
| implicate | /xx | Verb |
| scandal | /x | Noun |
| sway | / | Noun |
| prejudice | /xx | Noun |
| dripping | /x | Verb |
| pollution | x/x | Noun |
| waste | / | Noun |
| contaminant | x/xx | Noun |
| canker | /x | Noun |
| pollutant | x/x | Noun |
| impurity | x/xx | Noun |
| miasma | x/x | Noun |
| pestilence | /xx | Noun |
| tang | / | Noun |
| offal | /x | Noun |
| commercialism | x/xxx | Noun |
| rapacity | x/xx | Noun |
| foreignness | /xx | Noun |
| worldliness | /xx | Noun |
| afraid | x/ | Adjective |
| ailment | /x | Noun |
| alter | /x | Verb, Noun |
| anal | /x | Name, Adjective, Verb |
| ancients | /x | Noun |
| antipathy | x/xx | Noun |
| anus | /x | Noun |
| apollonian | xx/xx | Adjective, Name |
| blob | / | Noun, Verb |
| blot | / | Noun, Verb |
| bucolic | x/x | Adjective, Noun |
| channel | /x | Noun, Verb |
| deathless | /x | Adjective |
| diathesis | /xxx | Noun |
| disinfect | xx/ | Verb |
| doric | /x | Adjective, Name |
| elegiac | /xxx | Adjective, Noun |
| fits | / | Noun |
| greeks | / | Name |
| humour | /x | Noun, Verb |
| idiosyncrasy | xxx/xx | Noun |
| immorality | xx/xx | Noun |
| infirmities | x/xx | Noun |
| lard | / | Noun, Verb |
| lyrical | /xx | Adjective |
| make | / | Verb, Noun |
| maladies | /xx | Noun |
| pastoral | /xx | Adjective, Noun |
| patch | / | Noun, Verb |
| perversity | x/xx | Noun |
| predisposition | xxx/x | Noun |
| proclivities | x/xx | Noun |
| propensities | x/xx | Noun |
| qualms | / | Noun |
| rot | / | Noun, Verb |
| slick | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb |
| smudge | / | Noun, Verb |
| smut | / | Noun, Verb |
| soil | / | Noun, Verb |
| spot | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective |
| worm | / | Noun, Verb |
| die | / | Verb, Noun |
| fall | / | Verb, Noun |
| bulletproof | /xx | Adjective, Verb |
| shirtless | /x | Adjective |
| blow | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective |
