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 |
|---|---|
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| opportunist | one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| eventual | contingent |
| touching | capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| marked | having an identifying mark |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |