GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| collected | gathered together |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| brook | creek |
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| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |