GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
