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 |
|---|---|
| fulcrum | prop |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |