GRE Word List
JEST
a joking or mocking remark
The meaning of the word jest is a joking or mocking remark.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
---|---|
renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
acclimate | to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation |
forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
remunerative | serving to remunerate |
unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |
mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |