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 |
|---|---|
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| effusion | an act of effusing |