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 |
|---|---|
| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |
| progeny | descendants |
| lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |