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 |
|---|---|
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |