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 |
|---|---|
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| sophist | philosopher |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |