GRE Word List
RAUCOUS
disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse
The meaning of the word raucous is disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| chortle | to sing or chant exultantly |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| portly | dignified |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |