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 |
|---|---|
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| whittle | a large knife |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| onus | burden |