GRE Word List
HUBBUB
noise
The meaning of the word hubbub is noise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| victuals | food usable by people |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| exposure | the fact or condition of being exposed: such as |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |