GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| douse | to plunge into water |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| provenance | origin |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| paltry | inferior |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| hap | happening |