GRE Word List
SYNTHESIS
the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole
The meaning of the word synthesis is the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| rift | fissure |
| dire | exciting horror |