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 |
|---|---|
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| pedagogy | the art, science, or profession of teaching |