GRE Word List
SONOROUS
producing sound (as when struck)
The meaning of the word sonorous is producing sound (as when struck).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |