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 |
|---|---|
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| memoir | an official note or report : memorandum |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |