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rejoinder

nounCommon GRE wordMore R words

a quick, sharp reply or retort

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In a sentence

Rejoinder in a sentence

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Her witty rejoinder silenced the heckler at once.

Synonyms
retortripostecomebackresponse
Antonyms

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Verbal · Text Completion

The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Rejoinder (noun) means a quick, sharp reply or retort
Here is rejoinder used in an example sentence: "Her witty rejoinder silenced the heckler at once."
Common synonyms for rejoinder include retort, riposte, comeback, response.
Rejoinder is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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