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 |
|---|---|
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| nutritious | nourishing |
| mammal | any 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 |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| violate | break |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| phylum | a direct line of descent within a group |