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 |
|---|---|
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
| mischance | bad luck |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |