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 |
|---|---|
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| scotch | scottish |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |