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 |
|---|---|
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |