GRE Word List
COMPRESS
to press or squeeze together
The meaning of the word compress is to press or squeeze together.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| osseous | bony |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |