GRE Word List
RETALIATE
to return like for like
The meaning of the word retaliate is to return like for like.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| refrain | curb |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |