Word Meaning Example
Gurgling /ˈɡɝː.ɡəl/ to make I'm starving so my
a bubbling sound like water flowin stomach started
g gurgling
Whining /waɪn/ to make a long, high, sad sound The children begin
whining softly.
Roar /rɔːr/ to make a long, loud, deep sound Godzilla's roar
sounded over a
long distance
Whisper /ˈwɪs.pɚ/ to speak very quietly, using Chen lowered his
the breath but not the voice, so voice to a
that only the person close to you whisper.
can hear you
Thump /θʌmp/ to hit something and cause a noise A cough or a
thump of some
kind.
Deafening extremely loud The silence here
/ˈdef.ən.ɪŋ/ today is
deafening.
Hammered having surface indentations Nobody had
/ˈhæm.ɚd/ produced or appearing to have hammered
been produced by hammering furiously at her
door.
Eerie /ˈɪr.i/ strange in An eerie sound is
a frightening and mysterious way listened within.
Vow of silence to make I've never heard a
/vaʊ/ a firm promise or decision to better rationale for
maintain silence for determined the vow of
purposes silence.