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 |
|---|---|
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| groom | bridegroom |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| alluvial | relating to, composed of, or found in alluvium |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| violate | break |