GRE Word List
EXPIATE
to make amends for
The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.
Random words
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buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
reprise | a musical repetition: |
rickety | affected with rickets |
injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
apprehend | arrest |
wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
list | a simple series of words or numerals (such as the names of persons or objects) |
denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |