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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
