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 |
|---|---|
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| hindmost | farthest to the rear : last |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |