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 |
|---|---|
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |