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 |
|---|---|
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| superannuated | outmoded |