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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| nebula | any of numerous clouds of gas or dust in interstellar space |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| redolent | exuding fragrance : aromatic |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |