GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| rag | a waste piece of cloth |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| cue | the letter q |