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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| spate | freshet |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| rotunda | a round building |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
| commune | talk over |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |