GRE Word List
SOUND
a particular auditory impression : tone
The meaning of the word sound is a particular auditory impression : tone.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| exegesis | exposition |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| flicker | to move irregularly or unsteadily : flutter |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| impunity | exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |