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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| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| trenchant | keen |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| occult | to shut off from view or exposure : cover |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| 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) |