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 |
|---|---|
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| nebula | any of numerous clouds of gas or dust in interstellar space |
| anguish | extreme pain, distress, or anxiety |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |