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 |
|---|---|
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| circlet | a little circle |
| breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |