GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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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 |
pulchritude | physical comeliness |
anthropologist | the science of human beings |
unseemly | not seemly: such as |