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 |
|---|---|
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |