Vocabulary Word
Word: jollity
Definition: gaiety; cheerfulness; ADJ. jolly: merry; gay
Definition: gaiety; cheerfulness; ADJ. jolly: merry; gay
Sentences Containing 'jollity'
Four times did the botas bear being uplifted, but the fifth it was all in vain, for they were drier and more sapless than a rush by that time, which made the jollity that had been kept up so far begin to flag.
Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invunerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask.
Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists, whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all inferiors on their guard in the matter of obeying them.
More Vocab Words
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::: repine - fret; complain; be annoyed; Ex. repine over the undone work
::: rampart - defensive mound of earth
::: impious - irreverent
::: surrogate - substitute; person or thing used in place of another; Ex. surrogate mother; ADJ.
::: crass - very unrefined; grossly insensible; crude and undiscriminating; Ex. crass behavior
::: hoary - white with age
::: callow - youthful; immature; inexperienced
::: renown - fame; ADJ. renowned
