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.

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WordMeaning
decrepitwasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age
elegya poem in elegiac couplets
flinchto withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince
fringean ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band
mischancebad luck
exceptionablebeing likely to cause objection : objectionable
practicablecapable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible
licentiouslacking legal or moral restraints
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
forumthe marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business