GRE Word List
COMPELLING
that compels: such as
The meaning of the word compelling is that compels: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| legato | in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones) |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |