GRE vocabulary
Dissect
To cut up (a body or plant) in order to study its internal parts; to analyze (an idea or written text) in minute detail.
Example
"The students learned to dissect a frog in biology class, and then to dissect a poem in literature."
Etymology
From Latin 'dissecare', meaning 'to cut up'.
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