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 |
|---|---|
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| slew | a large number |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |