GRE Word List

FETE

festival

The meaning of the word fete is festival.

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WordMeaning
provocativeserving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate
exactto call for forcibly or urgently and obtain
resignationan act or instance of resigning something : surrender
bluffhaving a broad flattened front
marsupialany of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young
behooveto be necessary, proper, or advantageous for
avertto turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance
cremateto subject to cremation
retaliateto return like for like
equanimityevenness of mind especially under stress