GRE Word List
FELICITY
the quality or state of being happy
The meaning of the word felicity is the quality or state of being happy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| volition | the power of choosing or determining : will |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| 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) |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |