GRE Word List
EXPIATE
to make amends for
The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exhume | disinter |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| malediction | curse |
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| pastry | a dough that is used to make pies and other baked goods and typically has a high fat content : paste |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |