GRE Word List
CONSONANCE
harmony or agreement among components
The meaning of the word consonance is harmony or agreement among components.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| 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 |
| broil | to cook by direct exposure to radiant heat : grill |
| stealth | a cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection |
| lubricate | to make smooth or slippery |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |