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 |
|---|---|
| trenchant | keen |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| vouch | to supply supporting evidence or testimony |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |