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 |
|---|---|
| preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |
| doddering | feeble |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| broil | to cook by direct exposure to radiant heat : grill |
| exploit | deed |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| culmination | the action of culminating |