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 |
|---|---|
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |