GRE Word List
ASSAY
to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components
The meaning of the word assay is to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |
| sidetrack | siding |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |