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 |
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| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |