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Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.

revel

NOUN:	1. The act of showing joyful satisfaction in an event. Often used in plural: celebration, festivity, merrymaking, rejoicing, revelry. See LAUGHTER. 2. Joyful, exuberant activity. Often used in plural: conviviality, festival, festiveness, festivity, fun, gaiety, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, revelry. See LAUGHTER.
VERB:	1. To show joyful satisfaction in an event, especially by merrymaking: celebrate, rejoice. Idioms: kill the fatted calf, make merry. See LAUGHTER. 2. To take extravagant pleasure: bask, indulge, luxuriate, roll, rollick, wallow. See LIKE. 3. To behave riotously: carouse, frolic, riot, roister. Informal : hell (around). Idioms: blow off steam, cut loose, kick over the traces, kick up one's heels, let go, let loose, make merry, make whoopee, paint the town red, raise Cain (or the devil) (or hell) , whoop it up. See RESTRAINT.


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