GRE Word List
COMEBACK
a sharp or witty reply : retort
The meaning of the word comeback is a sharp or witty reply : retort.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| privy | private |
| gerontology | the comprehensive multidisciplinary study of aging and older adults compare geriatrics |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| commune | talk over |
| paradigm | example |