GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pungent | sharply painful |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
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| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
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| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
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