GRE Word List
COMPULSIVE
having power to compel
The meaning of the word compulsive is having power to compel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| dire | exciting horror |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |