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 |
|---|---|
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |