GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
Random words
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|---|---|
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| mischief | a specific injury or damage attributed to a particular agent |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |