GRE Word List
MURMUR
a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling
The meaning of the word murmur is a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| noisome | noxious |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |