GRE Word List
EXPIATE
to make amends for
The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| outlook | a place offering a view |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| enthrall | to hold spellbound : charm |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| facade | the front of a building |