GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| laud | praise |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |