GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |