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 |
|---|---|
| demeanor | behavior toward others : outward manner |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| provenance | origin |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| sage | one (such as a profound philosopher) distinguished for wisdom |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |