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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| ecstasy | a state of overwhelming emotion |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| upright | perpendicular |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| primordial | first created or developed : primeval |