revel
Other forms: revels; revelled; revelling; reveled; reveling
Revel means to take great pleasure. If you revel in something, you're not just pleased or even excited; you're overwhelmed by joy.
It used to mean riotous merry-making. Now it means to bask in the self-reflected glow of your own pleasure. You revel in your victory lap after winning the race. Your brother is constantly on your case for being clumsy, so when he knocks down a table filled with glassware, you revel in it. Think of it as a high level of pleasure.
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take delight in
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types:
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have a ball, have a good time
enjoy oneself greatly
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wallow
delight greatly in
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live it up
enjoy oneself
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have a ball, have a good time
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celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
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synonyms:
jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopie, racket, wassail, whoop it up
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unrestrained merrymaking
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synonyms:
revelry
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binge, bout, bust, tear
an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
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bender, booze-up, carousal, carouse, toot
revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
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bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, riot, saturnalia
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
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whoopee
noisy and boisterous revelry
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piss-up
vulgar expression for a bout of heavy drinking
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type of:
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conviviality, jollification, merrymaking
a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity
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Vocabulary lists containing revel
Running away from the slave-owning Southerland Plantation, twelve-year-old Homer and his seven-year-old sister Ada head to the swamp, where they find some unexpected help.
During a Hanukkah vacation on the island of Nantucket, sixteen-year-old Shira Barbanel makes a deal with Tyler Nelson to give her flirting lessons in exchange for an introduction to her media executive great-uncle.
In this first book of the Samurai Detective series set in 18th-century Japan, Konoike Seikei, a tea merchant’s son dreaming of becoming a noble warrior-poet, helps a judge solve the mystery of a missing jewel.
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