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 |
|---|---|
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| multiform | having many forms or appearances |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |