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 |
|---|---|
| cryptic | secret |
| endearment | a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection |
| audit | a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| limpid | marked by transparency (see transparent |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |