GRE Word List
PENOLOGY
a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders
The meaning of the word penology is a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders.
Random words
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| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| whimsy | whim |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| endue | provide |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |