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 |
|---|---|
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| odorous | having an odor: such as |
| brooch | an ornament that is held by a pin or clasp and is worn at or near the neck |