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 |
|---|---|
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |