GRE Word List
COMEUPPANCE
a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts
The meaning of the word comeuppance is a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| industrious | constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| glean | to gather grain or other produce left by reapers |