GRE Word List
EXPIATE
to make amends for
The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| impuissance | weakness |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation) |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |