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 |
|---|---|
| steep | lofty |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| forlorn | bereft |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| vixen | a female fox |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |