GRE Word List
EXPURGATE
to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous
The meaning of the word expurgate is to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous.
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|---|---|
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
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| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
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| artful | performed with or showing art or skill |
| pundit | pandit |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |