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 |
|---|---|
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| clime | climate |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| wry | twist |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| sage | one (such as a profound philosopher) distinguished for wisdom |