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

WordMeaning
indicessigns; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index
exertionthe act or an instance of exerting
nutritiousnourishing
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
clapperone that claps: such as
throttleto compress the throat of : choke
veritablebeing in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary
violatebreak
debilitateto impair the strength of : enfeeble
phyluma direct line of descent within a group