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 |
|---|---|
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| wholesome | promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| atypical | not typical : irregular |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |