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 |
|---|---|
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |