GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
chivalrous | valiant |
patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
conveyance | the action of conveying |
accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
varnish | a liquid preparation that when applied to a surface dries to form a hard lustrous typically transparent coating |
exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |