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 |
|---|---|
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| cow | the mature female of cattle (genus Bos) |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |