GRE Word List
JOCOSE
given to joking : merry
The meaning of the word jocose is given to joking : merry.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| grill | to broil on a grill |