GRE Word List
HUMOR
that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality
The meaning of the word humor is that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| dazzle | to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |