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 |
|---|---|
| resolve | to deal with successfully : clear up |
| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |