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 |
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| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| flashy | lacking in substance or flavor : insipid |
| bevy | a large group or collection |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| spartan | a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |