GRE Word List

RETRIBUTION

recompense

The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.

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WordMeaning
cordialshowing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval
laitythe people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy
intuitionthe power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
dissipateto break up and drive off
kindredof a similar nature or character : like
dregssediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate
emolumentthe returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites
trampletramp
venalcapable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable
ironythe use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning