GRE Word List
SOUND
a particular auditory impression : tone
The meaning of the word sound is a particular auditory impression : tone.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| 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 |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |
| preamble | an introductory statement |