GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
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| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| replenish | to fill or build up again |
| malediction | curse |
| primp | to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful or finicky manner |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |