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 |
|---|---|
| sear | being dried and withered |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |