GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| grate | grating |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| circlet | a little circle |