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 |
|---|---|
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| polity | political organization |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| commune | talk over |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| progeny | descendants |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| crossbreed | hybridize |