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 |
|---|---|
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| azure | the blue color of the clear sky |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |