GRE Word List
RESONANT
continuing to sound : echoing
The meaning of the word resonant is continuing to sound : echoing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accessory | an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| 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 |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |