GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |
| rustic | of, relating to, or suitable for the country : rural |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |