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| cacophony | bad sounds; disagreeable or discordant sounds |
| megaphone | large sound; a cone-shaped device for making the sound of the voice greater |
| microphone | an instrument for intensifying weak (small) sounds |
| phonetics | the branch of language study dealing w/ speech sounds and their symbols |
| phonics | the use of sounds of letters and groups of letters in teaching beginners to read |
| phonograph | a machine for playing a recorded (written on a disk) sounds |
| polyphonic | having two or more independent melodies all harmonizing |
| saxophone | a wind instrument |
| stereophonic | solid sound; giving a multidimensional effecr to sound |
| symphony | sounds together; an orchestra; music written for an orchestra |
| postdate | to date a check or other document w/ a future date rather than an actual date |
| posterior | located behind (as opposed to anterior, located in front) |
| posterity | those who came after; future generations |
| postgraduate | relating to a course of study after college graduation |
| posthumously | after one's death, as an award received posthumously |
| postimpressionist | a school of painting in France in the late nineteenth century that followed the impressionists |
| postlude | a piece of music played after a church service |
| post merdiem | after noon |
| postmortem | an examination after death; an autopsy |
| postpone | to put off until afterward |
| postscript | a note written after the main body of a letter. |
| preposterous | absurd |
