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 |
|---|---|
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| fauna | animal life |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| doddering | feeble |