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 |
|---|---|
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| onus | burden |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |