GRE Word List
COMPOST
a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land
The meaning of the word compost is a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
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| inaugurate | to induct into an office with suitable ceremonies |
| plenary | complete in every respect : absolute |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| 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 |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |