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 |
|---|---|
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |