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 |
|---|---|
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| estimable | capable of being estimated |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |