GRE Word List
COMPARTMENT
a separate division or section
The meaning of the word compartment is a separate division or section.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |