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 |
|---|---|
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| jurisdiction | the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| reactionary | relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
