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 |
|---|---|
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| pose | to set forth or offer for attention or consideration |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| economy | the structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
