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 |
|---|---|
| overwhelm | upset |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| groom | bridegroom |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |