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 |
|---|---|
| pliant | pliable |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| rent | property (such as a house) rented or for rent |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |