GRE Word List
EXTIRPATE
to destroy completely : wipe out
The meaning of the word extirpate is to destroy completely : wipe out.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| spate | freshet |