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 |
|---|---|
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |