GRE Word List
RETALIATE
to return like for like
The meaning of the word retaliate is to return like for like.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| metaphysical | of or relating to metaphysics |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |