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 |
|---|---|
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| prong | fork |