GRE Word List
UNISON
identity in musical pitch
The meaning of the word unison is identity in musical pitch.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| wont | accustomed |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| marked | having an identifying mark |