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 |
|---|---|
| stem_from | arise from; originate from |
| tome | book |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |