GRE Word List
JAUNT
a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure
The meaning of the word jaunt is a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure.
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garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
brink | edge |
awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |