World Wealth Unit 10
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22 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 merriment | joyous but less comic and boisterous than hilarity |
| flippancy | pertness, lightly disrespectful talk or actions, sauciness |
| mephetic | bad smelling, noxious, offensive, or poisonous from any source |
| psychedelic | producing an unnatural mental state |
| flip | to make a quick, light, upward toss |
| paranoia | implies abnormality or mental imbalance |
| scissile | capable of being readily cut or split |
| nugatory | of a small value, worthless; not opperative |
| jocularity | good-natured, playful joyousness |
| palpebral | of or having to do with the eyelids |
| levigate | to make smooth or into a smooth paste |
| stirious | like an icicle |
| arcuate | curved like a bow |
| mirth | prolonged amusement or merriment |
| pejorative | making or becoming worse; disparaging |
| jocund | talk is cheerful, good-natured, and spirited |
| levity | light-mindedness, frivolity |
| jovial | mood is heart and good-humored |
| facetiousness | witty levity |
| hilarity | boisterous levity |
| jocose | remarks are light hearted and intended to cause laughter |
| nacreous | lustrous, iridescent, yielding nacre or mother of pearl |
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