GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| dingy | dirty |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| politic | political |
| pundit | pandit |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |