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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |