GRE Plus Vocab

Monday, October 10, 2005

BOWDLERIZE

v.
a word asking for throwing out the objectionable material from a work; we can also call EXPUNGING a synonym.

It is indeed surprisng that although we are a democracry and there is freedom of press, the police swooned in on our printing press and asked for bowdlerizing certain paragraphs on the President-elect.

The Speaker of the house asked the notary to bowdlerize the foul language used by one of the members against another from the house proceedings transcript lest decades later people worry what a bad congress work culture their seniors had.

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