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 |
|---|---|
| intermediary | mediator |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| asymmetric | having two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |