GRE Word List
DELETE
to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing
The meaning of the word delete is to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| dowse | to plunge into water |