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 |
|---|---|
| venturesome | inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| homespun | spun or made at home |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| dint | force |