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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |