GRE Word List
SARCASM
a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
The meaning of the word sarcasm is a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| stellar | of or relating to the stars : astral |
| contest | strive |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |