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 |
|---|---|
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| gnarl | snarl |
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| junket | trip |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |