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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| microcosm | a little world |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| podium | a low wall serving as a foundation or terrace wall: such as |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| provident | frugal |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |