GRE Word List
JOVIAL
characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly
The meaning of the word jovial is characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly.
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| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| curator | a person who oversees or manages a place (such as a museum or zoo) that offers exhibits |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| distend | extend |
