GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| predecessor | one that precedes |
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| inequity | injustice |