GRE Word List
QUIP
a clever usually taunting remark : gibe
The meaning of the word quip is a clever usually taunting remark : gibe.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| gambit | a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |