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 |
|---|---|
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| hirsute | hairy |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| dabble | to work or involve oneself superficially or intermittently especially in a secondary activity or interest |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |