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 |
|---|---|
| abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |