GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prosody | the study of versification |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| traumatic | psychologically or emotionally stressful in a way that can lead to serious mental and emotional problems |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| congruent | congruous |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |