GRE Word List
CRESCENDO
a gradual increase
The meaning of the word crescendo is a gradual increase.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| imbalance | lack of balance : the state of being out of equilibrium or out of proportion |
| effete | no longer fertile |