GRE Word List
HILARITY
boisterous merriment or laughter
The meaning of the word hilarity is boisterous merriment or laughter.
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|---|---|
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
| chafe | irritate |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| 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 |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |