GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| verve | the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : vivacity |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| fiend | devil |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |