GRE Word List
COMPULSIVE
having power to compel
The meaning of the word compulsive is having power to compel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| unsavory | insipid |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| 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 |
| nourishment | food |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |