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 |
|---|---|
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| recast | to cast again |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |