GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fete | festival |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |