GRE Word List
HILARITY
boisterous merriment or laughter
The meaning of the word hilarity is boisterous merriment or laughter.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| coalesce | to grow together |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |