GRE Word List

QUIP

a clever usually taunting remark : gibe

The meaning of the word quip is a clever usually taunting remark : gibe.

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prostratestretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission
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paraphrasea restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form