GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| choice | the act of choosing : selection |
| stink | to emit a strong offensive odor |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |