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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distillto let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate
adventthe period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting
secularof or relating to the worldly or temporal
grossglaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness
prerogativean exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as
pontificalepiscopal attire
ruddyhaving a healthy reddish color
gobbleto swallow or eat greedily
rightfuljust
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