GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| finicky | extremely or excessively particular, exacting, or meticulous in taste or standards |