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 |
|---|---|
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| lance | a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| plane | airplane |