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 |
|---|---|
| humility | freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble |
| violate | break |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| verity | the quality or state of being true or real |