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 |
|---|---|
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| mulct | fine |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| 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 |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| quisling | traitor |
| retribution | recompense |