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 |
|---|---|
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
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| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
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| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
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