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 |
|---|---|
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| nautical | of, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships |
| traumatic | psychologically or emotionally stressful in a way that can lead to serious mental and emotional problems |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |