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 |
|---|---|
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| plebeian | a member of the Roman plebs |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| suspense | the state of being suspended : suspension |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |