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 |
|---|---|
| fleck | streak |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |