GRE Word List
CONSONANT
being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord
The meaning of the word consonant is being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord.
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Word | Meaning |
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prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
impoverish | to make poor |
distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
predispose | to dispose in advance |
precipitous | precipitate |