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 |
|---|---|
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
| phenomena | phenomenon |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| flick | a light sharp jerky stroke or movement |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| ramification | branch |