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 |
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rivulet | a small stream |
beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
extant | currently or actually existing |
snivel | to run at the nose |
frivolous | of little weight or importance |
derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |