GRE Word List
BADINAGE
playful repartee : banter
The meaning of the word badinage is playful repartee : banter.
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tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
billow | wave |
awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
flagrant | conspicuously offensive |