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 |
|---|---|
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| irate | roused to ire |
| resplendent | shining brilliantly : characterized by a glowing splendor |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| retiring | reserved |