GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| executive | of or relating to the execution of the laws and the conduct of public and national affairs |
| allure | to entice by charm or attraction |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |