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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psyche | a princess loved by Cupid |
censor | a person who supervises conduct and morals: such as |
connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
rational | having reason or understanding |
expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |