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redress

nounCommon GRE wordMore R words

compensation or remedy for a wrong or grievance

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The victims sought redress through the courts for years of mistreatment.

Synonyms
remedyreparationamendsrestitution
Antonyms

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Verbal · Text Completion

Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.

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Redress (noun) means compensation or remedy for a wrong or grievance
Here is redress used in an example sentence: "The victims sought redress through the courts for years of mistreatment."
Common synonyms for redress include remedy, reparation, amends, restitution.
Redress is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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