GRE Word List
TIMBRE
the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as
The meaning of the word timbre is the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| warranted | sanction |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping : tearful |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |