GRE Word List

COMEUPPANCE

a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts

The meaning of the word comeuppance is a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts.

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validhaving legal efficacy or force
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sentientresponsive to or conscious of sense impressions
supplicantone who supplicates
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