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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WordMeaning
dazeto stupefy especially by a blow : stun
charydiscreetly cautious: such as
discomposeto destroy the composure of
xenophobiafear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
alliterationthe repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)
ligneousof or resembling wood
pedestriancommonplace
archaichaving the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses
engagingtending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive
analogoussimilar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail