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 |
|---|---|
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| onus | burden |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |