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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| brawny | muscular |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |