GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| martial | of, relating to, or suited for war or a warrior |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| psyche | a princess loved by Cupid |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |