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 |
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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 |