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 |
|---|---|
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| spoilsport | one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |