1) Brainpower 2) Card 3) Caricature 4) Cartoon 5) Comedian 6) Comedy 7) Comic 8) Esprit 9) Gag 10) Humor 11) Humorist 12) Humour 13) Impersonation 14) Intellect 15) Intelligence 16) Irony 17) Jape 18) Jest 19) Mot 20) Pungency 21) Punster 22) Repartee 23) Ribaldry 24) Sarcasm 25) Satire 26) Teasing
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1) GBS was one 2) Ability to banter 3) Ability to make others laugh 4) Ability to say clever things 5) Acumen 6) Algonquin Round Table member 7) Amusing intellect 8) Amusing quality 9) Apt humor 10) Asset for a funny ad-libber 11) Astuteness 12) Attic appendage 13) Attic salt 14) Attic wit 15) Atticism
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White
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Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. A wit is a person skilled at making clever and funny remarks. Forms of wit include the quip and repartee. ==Forms of wit== As in the wit of Dorothy Parker`s set, the Algonquin Round Table, witty remarks may be intentionally cruel (as in many....
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• (v.) A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one`s wits; at one`s wits` end, and the like. • (v.) Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner. &...
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<psychology> The faculty of expressing the amusing, clever, or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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Wordsmith In Training
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In modern vernacular, the word wit refers to elements in a literary work designed to make the audien
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Wit noun [ Anglo-Saxon
witt ,
wit ; akin to OFries.
wit , German
witz , Old High German
wizzī , Icelandic
vit , Danish
vid , Swedish
vett . √133. See
Wit ,
v. ]
1. Mind; intellect; understa...
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Wit transitive verb & i. [
inf. (To)
Wit ;
present sing. Wot ;
plural Wite ;
imperfect Wist(e) ;
past participle Wist ;
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Using language in a clever and funny way.
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During the Renaissance wit was synonymous with intelligence and wisdom. During the 17th century it became more closely associated with fancy. One of the main themes of Pope's An Essay on Criticism is wit and he concludes that:
True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Today wit is limit...
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n] - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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wit 1. The keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. 2. The ability to perceive and express in an ingeniously humorous manner the relationship between seemingly incongruous or disparate things; humor, repartee, sarcasm, irony. ...
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Wit is a biting or insightful kind of humor. It includes sharp comebacks, clever banter, and dry, one-line jokes. It is often cynical or insulting, which is what provides it with its characteristic sharpness.
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humor noun a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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White beer. It is a cloudy wheat beer, spiced with corriander and orange peel.
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See Witbier.
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Verbal humor based on manipulation of language: puns, twisted logic, and other forms of wordplay.
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[SAT terms] verbal skill that has the power to evoke laughter
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mental ability
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