GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
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sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
invoke | to petition for help or support |
slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |