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 |
|---|---|
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| natal | native |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| prank | trick |
| hubbub | noise |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |