GRE Word List
WITTICISM
a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark
The meaning of the word witticism is a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |