GRE Word List
OBLITERATE
to remove utterly from recognition or memory
The meaning of the word obliterate is to remove utterly from recognition or memory.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| array | to dress or decorate especially in splendid or impressive attire : adorn |
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| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |