GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| unkempt | not combed |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| ponderous | of very great weight |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |