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 |
|---|---|
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| conscientious | meticulous |