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 |
|---|---|
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| imbecility | the quality or state of being very stupid or foolish : utter foolishness |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| pliant | pliable |
| onus | burden |
| jaded | fatigued by overwork : exhausted |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |