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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| iniquitous | characterized by iniquity |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |