GRE Word List
REVELRY
noisy partying or merrymaking
The meaning of the word revelry is noisy partying or merrymaking.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |