GRE Word List
FETE
festival
The meaning of the word fete is festival.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| lackluster | lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality : dull |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |