GRE Word List
JOCULAR
said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful
The meaning of the word jocular is said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| pittance | a small portion, amount, or allowance |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
| insurgent | a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| nexus | connection |