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 |
|---|---|
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| pertinacious | adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| sequester | to set apart : segregate |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| slur | an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo : aspersion |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |