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 |
|---|---|
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| rococo | rococo work or style |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| wastrel | vagabond |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |