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 |
|---|---|
| attribute | a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| abominate | to hate or loathe intensely : abhor |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |