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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| steep | lofty |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
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| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
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