GRE Word List

REPRISAL

a retaliatory act

The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.

Random words

WordMeaning
crabbedmarked by a forbidding moroseness
gruelingtrying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing
purportedreputed
implausiblenot plausible : provoking disbelief
requiema mass for the dead
decrepitwasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age
kleptomaniaca person evidencing kleptomania
nipto catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch
lateralof or relating to the side
veritablebeing in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary