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 |
|---|---|
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| sage | one (such as a profound philosopher) distinguished for wisdom |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| vintner | a wine merchant |