GRE Word List
CODA
a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure
The meaning of the word coda is a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| residual | remainder |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| machiavellian | of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |