GRE Word List

NEMESIS

the Greek goddess of retributive justice

The meaning of the word nemesis is the Greek goddess of retributive justice.

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WordMeaning
gazettenewspaper
encumberweigh down
parallelextending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant
exactto call for forcibly or urgently and obtain
haplesshaving no luck : unfortunate
rotunditymarked by roundness : rounded
tacta keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense
onomatopoeiathe naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss)
pedanticof, relating to, or being a pedant
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language