GRE Word List
BID
to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance
The meaning of the word bid is to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance.
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|---|---|
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
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| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
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| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |