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 |
|---|---|
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| oligarchy | government by the few |
| meretricious | of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution |