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 |
|---|---|
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| bookish | of or relating to books |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |