GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| bland | smooth and soothing in manner or quality |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |