GRE Word List
LEGATO
in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones)
The meaning of the word legato is in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| nourish | nurture |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |