GRE Word List

SPORTIVE

frolicsome

The meaning of the word sportive is frolicsome.

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burlesquea literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation
jargonthe technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group
noosea loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn
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sensuousof or relating to the senses or sensible objects