GRE Word List
EXPIATE
to make amends for
The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| 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 |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| significant | having meaning |
| aesthetic | of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful |
| libretto | the text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |