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 |
|---|---|
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| jaunt | a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure |
| scintilla | spark |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| passe | past one's prime |