GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| narrative | something that is narrated : story |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| hubbub | noise |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |