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 |
|---|---|
| hubbub | noise |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| iota | an infinitesimal amount : jot |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |
| foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |