GRE Word List
EXPIATE
to make amends for
The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| violate | break |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| pastoral | of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |