GRE Word List

EXPIATE

to make amends for

The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.

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admonishto indicate duties or obligations to
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litigationthe act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating
digressionthe act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work
bivouaca usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter
discomfitto put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert
testatora person who dies leaving a will or testament in force
stampedea wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals
mortara sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle
disabuseto free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy