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 |
|---|---|
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |