GRE Word List
QUIP
a clever usually taunting remark : gibe
The meaning of the word quip is a clever usually taunting remark : gibe.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| ignite | to set afire |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| trenchant | keen |
| fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |