GRE Word List
PUNITIVE
inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment
The meaning of the word punitive is inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment.
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inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly |
gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
expedite | to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up |
foster | having, relating to, or being the relationship between a foster parent and the child who the foster parent cares for |
palatial | of, relating to, or being a palace |
deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
prime | the second of the canonical hours |
prosperous | auspicious |
dowse | to plunge into water |