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 |
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| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| monolithic | of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| ponderous | of very great weight |