GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
Random words
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forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
brisk | keenly alert : lively |
meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
festive | of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival |
uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |