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 |
|---|---|
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| titular | having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |