GRE Word List

FESTIVE

of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival

The meaning of the word festive is of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival.

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credentialwarranting credit or confidence
unfeignednot feigned or hypocritical : genuine
mordantbiting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive
colloquialused in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation
myriadten thousand
threshto separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically
habituateto make used to something : accustom
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
banallacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite
infiltrateto enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes