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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| defer | put off |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |