GRE Word List

DETONATION

the action or process of detonating

The meaning of the word detonation is the action or process of detonating.

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xenophobiafear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
mannerismexaggerated or affected (see affected
entrancepower or permission to enter : admission
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syntheticrelating to or involving synthesis : not analytic
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circleta little circle
compromisesettlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions