GRE Word List
MODE
an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
The meaning of the word mode is an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| ebullient | boiling |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| 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 |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| irate | roused to ire |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |