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 |
|---|---|
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |