GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| duration | continuance in time |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| regeneration | an act or the process of regenerating : the state of being regenerated |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |