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 |
|---|---|
| dynamo | generator |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| suitor | one that petitions or entreats |