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 |
|---|---|
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |