GRE Word List
CACOPHONOUS
marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding
The meaning of the word cacophonous is marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| scurry | to move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |