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
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mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |