GRE Word List
MIRTH
gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter
The meaning of the word mirth is gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter.
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| amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |