GRE Word List
FETE
festival
The meaning of the word fete is festival.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| slick | having a smooth surface : slippery |
| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
| proletarian | a member of the proletariat |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |