GRE Word List

COMPRISE

to be made up of

The meaning of the word comprise is to be made up of.

Random words

WordMeaning
nauseouscausing nausea or disgust : nauseating
mannerismexaggerated or affected (see affected
penologya branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders
aureolea radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage
opulencewealth
overturnto cause to turn over : upset
cholericeasily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered
deleteto eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing
coercionthe act, process, or power of coercing
etymologythe 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