GRE Word List
REVELRY
noisy partying or merrymaking
The meaning of the word revelry is noisy partying or merrymaking.
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| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |