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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motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
strew | to spread by scattering |
rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |