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 |
|---|---|
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| abnegation | denial |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
| demented | mad |