GRE Word List
COMEBACK
a sharp or witty reply : retort
The meaning of the word comeback is a sharp or witty reply : retort.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| elysian | of or relating to Elysium |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |