GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| juncture | a point of time |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |