GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contrive | devise |
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| satellite | a celestial body orbiting another of larger size |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| malediction | curse |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| headlong | headfirst |