GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| advocacy | the act or process of supporting a cause or proposal : the act or process of advocating (see advocate |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| diva | prima donna |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| latch | to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |