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.
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| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| leery | suspicious |
| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |