GRE Word List
REPRISAL
a retaliatory act
The meaning of the word reprisal is a retaliatory act.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| purported | reputed |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| lateral | of or relating to the side |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |