GRE Word List
COMPUTE
to determine especially by mathematical means
The meaning of the word compute is to determine especially by mathematical means.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| bludgeon | a short stick that usually has one thick or loaded end and is used as a weapon |
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| slew | a large number |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |