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 |
|---|---|
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| aria | air |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| canny | clever |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| symmetry | balanced proportions |