GRE Word List
JOCUND
marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness
The meaning of the word jocund is marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| fructify | to bear fruit |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| foray | a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils : raid |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |