GRE Word List
EXPIATE
to make amends for
The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |