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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benisonblessing
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insensatelacking sense or understanding
illusorybased on or producing illusion : deceptive
oracularresembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery)
caliberdegree of mental capacity or moral quality
plausiblesuperficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious
mammothany of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair