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 |
|---|---|
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |