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 |
|---|---|
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| pitfall | trap |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| euphoria | a feeling of well-being or elation |
| fodder | something fed to domestic animals |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |