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 |
|---|---|
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| opulence | wealth |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |