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 |
|---|---|
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| heedless | not taking heed : inconsiderate |