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revel

Meaning

To engage in boisterous and noisy enjoyment; to take delight in.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

The whole town came out to celebrate. Kids ran through the streets, laughing and chasing each other. Adults clapped and sang, happy to finally revel in the freedom after a long year. Everyone forgot their worries and just took delight in the moment.

The explorers finally reached the hidden geothermal pool. After weeks of tough trekking, they let out shouts of pure joy and began to revel in the warm, bubbling water, splashing and laughing under the strange, alien sky.

The kids would revel when the old bell tower finally chimed noon. They’d drop their tools, yell with glee, and chase each other through the dusty marketplace. It was their favorite part of the day, a loud, happy release from their chores.

The party guests were so happy, they started to revel! They jumped up and down, sang silly songs, and even wore lampshades on their heads. It was a wonderfully loud and fun time, and everyone seemed to revel in the silliness.

Barnaby the badger, with a belly full of fizzy lemonade and a hat made of toast, began to revel. He wiggled his ears to the polka music played by a squirrel on a kazoo. His badger friends, equally delighted, joined in a chaotic dance, tumbling over each other in pure, noisy glee.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

The crowd roared, a wave of pure elation washing over the stadium. They would revel in this victory, shouting and cheering long into the night, a noisy, uninhibited testament to their joy.

After weeks of cataloging the fungal blooms in the abandoned subway tunnels, the team finally emerged. They’d found a new species of bioluminescent mold. Tonight, they would revel in their discovery, sharing questionable karaoke renditions of obscure folk songs with flasks of potent berry wine.

The team finally finished the last, impossibly complex circuit board. A cheer erupted as they began to revel, banging empty energy drink cans and laughing with exhausted relief. They'd pulled an all-nighter to calibrate the experimental holographic projector, and their shared, noisy triumph was the sweetest reward.

The toddlers, after finally conquering the formidable slide, would revel with ear-splitting shrieks, their tiny hands flailing in a frenzy of pure, unadulterated joy. Their parents, meanwhile, could only revel in the brief moment of peace that descended when naptime finally arrived.

Barnaby the badger, after a particularly successful truffle hunt involving a rogue earthworm with a vendetta, began to revel. He’d found a whole patch, you see, and decided the best way to celebrate was to roll in the damp earth, snorting with pure, unadulterated, muddy joy.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

After a week of relentless work, the friends decided to revel. Laughter echoed as they danced to loud music, singing along with unrestrained joy. They truly took delight in the freedom and camaraderie of the night.

The entire research team gathered after months of isolation. Finally, the successful synthesis of the bio-luminescent fungal strain allowed them to revel in their groundbreaking discovery, their joyous shouts echoing through the cavernous laboratory as the walls began to shimmer with otherworldly light.

After successfully calibrating the sonic dampeners, the research team began to revel. They cranked up the amplified whale songs, their laughter echoing through the bio-dome as the cetacean melodies vibrated their very bones. It was a moment of pure, unadulterated scientific joy.

The penguins, after a particularly bountiful krill harvest, decided to revel. They flapped their stubby wings with wild abandon, squawking operatic arias and sliding on their bellies in a chaotic, joyful frenzy. It was a spectacular, fish-scented bacchanal of pure, unadulterated glee.

The annual competitive cheese-rolling championships culminated in a truly magnificent spectacle. Spectators, having consumed prodigious amounts of celebratory root beer, began to revel as the Double Gloucester careened down the precipice. A particularly enthusiastic chap, clad only in lederhosen and a precarious badger-skin hat, howled with unbridled glee.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

The jubilant crowd began to revel, their uproarious laughter echoing through the stadium. After years of near misses, their team had finally secured the championship, and the uninhibited celebration was a testament to their collective elation.

The clandestine gathering of cryptographers, fueled by copious quantities of fermented mead, began to revel. Laughter erupted as they finally decrypted the ancient cypher, their boisterous enjoyment echoing through the stone chamber, a testament to their intellectual triumph.

The rebreather diver, after a grueling decompression, surfaced to wild cheers. They’d explored a sub-aquatic geological anomaly previously undocumented, a triumphant feat of extreme spelunking. Now, on the bobbing vessel under a sky ablaze with auroras, they began to revel, their hearty laughter echoing across the frigid expanse.

The circus clowns, a veritable menagerie of jesters, began to revel with such unbridled gusto that the grand tent itself seemed to vibrate. They juggled flaming pineapples, contorted themselves into preposterous phantasmagorias, and unleashed a cacophony of guffaws, clearly taking immense delight in their pandemonium.

The gnome community, having finally perfected their subterranean bioluminescent fungal beer, decided to revel with unbridled gusto. Their cackles, like a thousand tiny, dissonant mandolins, echoed through the cavernous halls as they unabashedly guzzled the phosphorescent brew, each gnome a veritable crucible of exuberant, unadulterated mirth.

Difficulty

Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.

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