GRE Word List
COMPRISE
to be made up of
The meaning of the word comprise is to be made up of.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ebullient | boiling |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |