GRE Word List
DISSONANCE
lack of agreement
The meaning of the word dissonance is lack of agreement.
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|---|---|
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
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| alias | otherwise called : otherwise known as |
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