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 |
|---|---|
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |