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 |
|---|---|
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| reek | smoke |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |