GRE Word List
FETE
festival
The meaning of the word fete is festival.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| deserts | arid land with usually sparse vegetation |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |