Do you find yourself often coming up with the perfect snappy comeback, hours after an encounter took place? According to the BBC, one of the ways to craft a witty rejoinder is to work on your listening skills. Listening carefully to conversations — as well as taking advantage of humans’ ability to think faster than they speak — will make it easier to quickly form a well-timed, clever reply the next time your friend pokes some fun at you. “Rejoinder” is a Middle English word that originally came from the Anglo-Norman French word “rejoindre” (“to reunite something again”).