GRE Word List
DISSONANCE
lack of agreement
The meaning of the word dissonance is lack of agreement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| inculcate | to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| expatriate | banish |
| raffle | to engage in a raffle |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |