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 |
|---|---|
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |