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 |
|---|---|
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| retiring | reserved |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| nib | bill |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |