SAT vocabulary
Expiate
to make amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing
Example
"The disgraced financier spent his remaining years funding community clinics to expiate his past fraud."
Etymology
From Latin expiatus, past participle of expiare ('to atone for thoroughly'), from pius ('dutiful, devout').
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