GRE Word List
DISSONANCE
lack of agreement
The meaning of the word dissonance is lack of agreement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| purse | a small bag for money |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |