GRE Word List
RETRIBUTION
recompense
The meaning of the word retribution is recompense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| wreak | bring about |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| gourmand | one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking |