GRE Word List
SONOROUS
producing sound (as when struck)
The meaning of the word sonorous is producing sound (as when struck).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| irate | roused to ire |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |