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 |
|---|---|
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| psyche | a princess loved by Cupid |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| askew | out of line : at an angle |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| whittle | a large knife |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |