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 |
|---|---|
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| engaging | tending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |