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 |
|---|---|
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| vixen | a female fox |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
