GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| grotto | cave |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |