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 |
|---|---|
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |