GRE Word List
COMPULSIVE
having power to compel
The meaning of the word compulsive is having power to compel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| 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 |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| compartment | a separate division or section |