GRE Word List

RETRIBUTION

recompense

The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.

Random words

WordMeaning
recriminationa retaliatory accusation
chicanerydeception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery
pertsaucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured
exoticintroduced from another country : not native to the place where found
orificean opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass
reparteea quick and witty reply
computeto determine especially by mathematical means
steadfastfirmly fixed in place : immovable
primto give a prim or demure expression to
cumulativeincreasing by successive additions