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 |
|---|---|
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| rumble | to make a low heavy rolling sound |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| pertinacious | adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |