GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| growl | rumble |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |