GRE Word List
EXPIATE
to make amends for
The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| resign | relegate |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |