GRE Word List
COMEUPPANCE
a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts
The meaning of the word comeuppance is a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts.
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| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
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| piscatorial | piscatory |
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| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
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