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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rejoinderthe defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication
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insipidlacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull
vagabonda person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life
crypta chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground
somberso shaded as to be dark and gloomy
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bereavedsuffering the death of a loved one
distinctionthe act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference
antithesisthe direct opposite