GRE Word List
MODULATE
to tune to a key or pitch
The meaning of the word modulate is to tune to a key or pitch.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| vital | of the utmost importance |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| remediable | capable of being remedied |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| pummel | pound |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |