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 |
|---|---|
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| bauble | trinket |
| leery | suspicious |