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 |
|---|---|
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| conflagration | fire |