GRE Word List
PURGATORY
an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification
The meaning of the word purgatory is an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| facade | the front of a building |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| hue | overall character or appearance to the mind : complexion |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |