GRE Word List
EXPUNGE
to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion
The meaning of the word expunge is to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |