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 |
|---|---|
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| martial | of, relating to, or suited for war or a warrior |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| acclaim | applaud |
| studied | carefully considered or prepared : thoughtful |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |