Common words for GRE PART9

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  1. chortle
    a soft partly suppressed laugh
  2. droll
    comical in an odd or whimsical manner
  3. facetious
    cleverly amusing in tone
  4. flippant
    showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness
  5. gibe
    laugh at with contempt and derision
  6. jocular
    characterized by jokes and good humor
  7. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  8. ludicrous
    inviting ridicule
  9. raillery
    light teasing
  10. riposte
    a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying
  11. simper
    smile in an insincere, unnatural, or coy way
  12. abatement
    the act of making less active or intense
  13. aperture
    a natural opening in something
  14. fissure
    a long narrow depression in a surface
  15. hiatus
    an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
  16. interregnum
    the time between two reigns or governments
  17. interstice
    small opening between things
  18. lull
    make calm or still
  19. orifice
    an opening, especially one that opens into a bodily cavity
  20. rent
    a payment or series of payments made by a lessee to an owner
  21. respite
    a pause from doing something
  22. rift
    a narrow fissure in rock
  23. altruistic
    showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
  24. beneficent
    doing or producing good
  25. clement
    (of weather or climate) mild
  26. largess
    liberality in bestowing gifts
  27. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  28. munificent
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  29. philanthropic
    of or relating to charitable giving
  30. unstinting
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  31. avaricious
    immoderately desirous of acquiring something
  32. covetous
    immoderately desirous of acquiring something
  33. mercenary
    a person hired to fight for another country than their own
  34. miserly
    characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
  35. penurious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  36. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  37. venal
    capable of being corrupted
Created on 八月 10, 2012 (updated 八月 10, 2012)

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