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 |
|---|---|
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |