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.
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Word | Meaning |
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intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
vignette | a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper |
persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
hierarchy | a division of angels |
recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |