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 |
|---|---|
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| forebears | ancestor |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |