GRE Word List
COMPULSIVE
having power to compel
The meaning of the word compulsive is having power to compel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ponderous | of very great weight |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |