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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| mammoth | any 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 |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| cataract | a clouding of the lens of the eye or of its surrounding transparent membrane that obstructs the passage of light |