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Retort I Question Quick Reply Rɪ'Tɔːrt Worth Answering

Front retort
Pron [rɪ'tɔːrt]
Back 【RETORT】
"your question is not worth answering," he retorted.
他反驳说:“你的问题不值得回答”。
【重点词汇】
retort v. 反驳
Vocab
retorta quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)

What's a retort? It's a reply that's short. "Why did the monkey fall out of the tree; please give me a report?" I said "The monkey's dead," with a dry retort.

Today retort is used as both a noun and a verb, and both come from 16th- and 17th-century sources meaning "to twist, turn back." A retort is a comeback or a quick and clever answer or remark. It can be a form of payback when someone tries to insult or tease another person, and often, a perfect retort doesn't occur to you till later, when you think "Oh! I wish I had said that earlier!"

All forms of 'retort' will appear on average once every 291 pages.
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