GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| finery | ornament |
| bauble | trinket |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |