GRE Word List
JEST
playful remark or act; V. act or speak playfully
The meaning of the word jest is playful remark or act; V. act or speak playfully.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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leave-taking | farewell or departure |
contentious | quarrelsome; controversial; likely to cause arguments |
tangible | able to be touched; real; concrete; palpable; possible to realize or understand; Ex. tangible proof |
tenuous | thin; slim; rare |
relegate | put into a lower or worse place; banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign; Ex. relegate the old furniture to the children's room; Ex. relegated to the second division |
fructify | bear fruit; produce fruit |
lust | intense sexual desire; intense eagerness; V. |
self-indulgence | excessive indulgence of one's own desire |
inanimate | lifeless; not animate |
ethnic | relating to races |