GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |
| grill | to broil on a grill |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| dignitary | one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| farce | stuff |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| rasp | to rub with something rough |