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 |
|---|---|
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| colloquy | conversation |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| brawny | muscular |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |