GRE Word List
EXPIATE
to make amends for
The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| circlet | a little circle |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| gusto | an individual or special taste |
| anoint | to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |