GRE Word List
COMPOUND
something formed by a union of elements or parts
The meaning of the word compound is something formed by a union of elements or parts.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| slew | a large number |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| congenital | existing at or dating from birth |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |