GRE Word List
ELATED
marked by high spirits : exultant
The meaning of the word elated is marked by high spirits : exultant.
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|---|---|
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| hereafter | after this in sequence or in time |
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| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| victuals | food usable by people |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| versatile | embracing a variety of subjects, fields, or skills |