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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| nebula | any of numerous clouds of gas or dust in interstellar space |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| billow | wave |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| haggard | not tamed |