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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inanimate | not animate: |
| noisome | noxious |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| clangor | a resounding clang or medley of clangs |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| obnoxious | odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |