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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| slovenly | untidy especially in personal appearance |
| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |