GRE Word List
TEMPO
the rate of speed of a musical piece or passage indicated by one of a series of directions (such as largo, presto, or allegro) and often by an exact metronome marking
The meaning of the word tempo is the rate of speed of a musical piece or passage indicated by one of a series of directions (such as largo, presto, or allegro) and often by an exact metronome marking.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| studied | carefully considered or prepared : thoughtful |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |