GRE Word List
REPARTEE
a quick and witty reply
The meaning of the word repartee is a quick and witty reply.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| sequester | to set apart : segregate |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |