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 |
|---|---|
| outspoken | direct and open in speech or expression : frank |
| shuffle | to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| grudging | unwilling |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |