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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| tempo | the rate of speed of a musical piece or passage indicated by one of a series of directions (such as largo, presto, or allegro) and often by an exact metronome marking |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| illuminate | to supply or brighten with light |