GRE Word List
REPRISAL
retaliation
The meaning of the word reprisal is retaliation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poultice | soothing application applied to sore and inflamed portions of the body |
| palpable | tangible; (of something bad) easily perceptible; obvious; Ex. palpable blunder |
| repel | drive away; disgust; Ex. repel the attack/moisture; Ex. repelled by the dirty room; CF. repulsion |
| fissure | crevice; crack |
| connivance | pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance; permission to offend; V. connive: feign ignorance (of a wrong); cooperate secretly in an illegal action; conspire |
| repudiate | disown; disavow; deny |
| coincidence | the chance occurrence, at the same time, of two or more seemingly connected events; V. coincide: happen at the same time; be in agreement; CF. coincident; CF. coincidental |
| cantankerous | ill-humored; irritable |
| supposition | assumption; hypothesis; surmise; V. suppose |
| chauvinist | blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group, cause, or sex; ADJ. chauvinistic; CF. chauvinism; Nicolas Chauvin |