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 |
|---|---|
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |