GRE Word List
REVELRY
noisy partying or merrymaking
The meaning of the word revelry is noisy partying or merrymaking.
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strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
sportive | frolicsome |
snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
ferment | to undergo fermentation |
allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |