GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| nexus | connection |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| collected | gathered together |
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| microcosm | a little world |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |