GRE Word List
PUNITIVE
inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment
The meaning of the word punitive is inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| stilted | pompous |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| antecede | precede |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |