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 |
|---|---|
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| scheme | a plan or program of action |
| collusion | secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |