GRE Word List
RETALIATE
to return like for like
The meaning of the word retaliate is to return like for like.
Random words
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tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |
threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
scurry | to move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper |
ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |