GRE Word List

GAMBOL

to skip about in play : frisk

The meaning of the word gambol is to skip about in play : frisk.

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requisitionthe act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action
mammothany of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair
carnagethe flesh of slain animals or humans
destitutelacking something needed or desirable
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
satirea literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
propoundto offer for discussion or consideration
petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
circuitoushaving a circular or winding course
cataracta clouding of the lens of the eye or of its surrounding transparent membrane that obstructs the passage of light