On a compass, 90 degrees means due east. The other device called a compass is used to transfer distance and draw circles, but not to measure angles. It's most likely that the word problem you were looking at meant "east".
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90 < angle < 180
An obtuse angle
A right angle.
Obtuse.
The complement of any angle, given that the angle is less than 90 degrees, is 90 minus the angle measure. In other words, it is, "What degree measure, when added to the original angle, creates 90 degrees?"