GRE Word List
CHASTEN
to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline
The meaning of the word chasten is to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline.
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|---|---|
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| avid | characterized by enthusiasm and vigorous pursuit : very eager and enthusiastic |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| enclave | a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |