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 |
|---|---|
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| imprecation | curse |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| trenchant | keen |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |