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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| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| fanaticism | fanatic outlook or behavior |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |