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 |
|---|---|
| zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| lampoon | satire |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |
| retract | to draw back or in |