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 |
|---|---|
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| alluvial | relating to, composed of, or found in alluvium |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| engross | to copy or write in a large hand |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |