GRE Word List
COMPONENT
a constituent part : ingredient
The meaning of the word component is a constituent part : ingredient.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| overthrow | overturn |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| 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 |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| reckon | count |