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 |
|---|---|
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| mongrel | an individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds (see breed |