GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| lackluster | lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality : dull |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |