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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| prosody | the study of versification |