GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |