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 |
|---|---|
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| rail | a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| steep | lofty |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |