GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| flighty | swift |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| headlong | headfirst |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |