Your friend Robert who always makes funny observations and light-hearted quips? He’s jocose, meaning he's good humored and jokes around a lot.

Definitions of jocose

Latin may not seem like a lot of laughs sometimes, but it is responsible for injecting a little humor into English words that have their origins in jocus, the Latin word meaning ‘joke’ or ‘jest.’ Jocose, jocular, joke — they all come from jocus. Jocose first came into English in the seventeenth century as a way to describe something that’s characterized by a playful, merry humor.

Question

jocose has the same or almost the same meaning as:

A. onerous

B. concentric

C. gory

D. humorous

Answer :- D. humorous

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