GRE Word List
COMPROMISE
settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions
The meaning of the word compromise is settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| constituency | a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position) |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| 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 |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |