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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| spoof | deceive |
| prolixity | unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| overthrow | overturn |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |