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 |
|---|---|
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| patent | open to public inspection |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| celibate | of, relating to, or characterized by celibacy: |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |