GRE Word List
CASTIGATION
to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism
The meaning of the word castigation is to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| ebullient | boiling |
| trance | stupor |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| finished | entirely done |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |