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.
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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 |