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 |
|---|---|
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| ramification | branch |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |