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 |
|---|---|
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| bifurcated | divided into two branches or parts |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |