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hebetic
eventide
cacophony
indefeasible
contumacy

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PRONUNCIATION:

(kuh-KOF-uh-nee)

MEANING:

noun: A harsh mixture of sounds.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French cacophonie, from Greek kakophonia (harsh sounding), from kakos (bad) + phone (sound). Kakos is ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate), which also gave us poppycock, cucking stool, cacology, and cacography. Earliest documented use: 1656.

USAGE:

“The goat’s noisy discontent joined in the cacophony of human and animal sounds.”
Rebecca Kertz; A Secret Amish Love; Mills & Boon Love Inspired; 2017.

See more usage examples of cacophony in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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