GRE Word List
EXPIATE
to make amends for
The meaning of the word expiate is to make amends for.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| contest | strive |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| impetuous | marked by impulsive vehemence or passion |