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This vocabulary list features words with the Latin root son, meaning "sound."
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  1. sonic
    having or caused by speed equal to the speed of sound
  2. sonata
    a musical composition of movements of contrasting forms
  3. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  4. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  5. dissonance
    disagreeable sounds
  6. consonant
    a speech sound that is not a vowel
  7. unison
    two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves
  8. resonate
    produce a deep, clear sound
  9. resounding
    characterized by loud, deep sound
  10. sonorous
    full and loud and deep
  11. consonance
    the property of sounding harmonious
  12. dissonant
    harmonically unresolved
  13. resonant
    characterized by a loud deep sound
  14. sonogram
    image produced by reflections of high-frequency sound waves
  15. supersonic
    greater than the speed of sound in a given medium
  16. resonance
    the characteristic of having a loud deep sound
Created on Mon Mar 03 12:54:18 EST 2025 (updated Mon Mar 03 12:56:45 EST 2025)

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