GRE Word List
COMPENDIUM
a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract
The meaning of the word compendium is a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| grate | grating |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| indulgent | willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration : indulging or characterized by indulgence |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |