GRE Word List
STRIDENT
characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound
The meaning of the word strident is characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| ploy | escapade |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| blunt | having an edge or point that is not sharp |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |