GRE Word List
COMEUPPANCE
a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts
The meaning of the word comeuppance is a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| devious | wandering |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |