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 |
|---|---|
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| prestige | standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly |
| frail | easily led into evil |