GRE Word List
RAUCOUS
disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse
The meaning of the word raucous is disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| encompass | include |
| tempo | the rate of speed of a musical piece or passage indicated by one of a series of directions (such as largo, presto, or allegro) and often by an exact metronome marking |