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 |
|---|---|
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |