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 |
|---|---|
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |
| energize | to make energetic, vigorous, or active |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| lancet | a sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| primal | original |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |