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 |
|---|---|
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| concatenate | linked together |