GRE Word List
REPARTEE
a quick and witty reply
The meaning of the word repartee is a quick and witty reply.
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confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
occult | to shut off from view or exposure : cover |
rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |
ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
libel | a written statement in which a plaintiff in certain courts sets forth the cause of action or the relief sought |
redress | to set right : remedy |
efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
retrench | cut down |