GRE Word List
DECOMPOSITION
to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds
The meaning of the word decomposition is to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| odorous | having an odor: such as |
| abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
| adjoin | to add or attach by joining |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| intermediary | mediator |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |