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 |
|---|---|
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| embark | to go on board a vehicle for transportation |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| succor | relief |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |