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 |
|---|---|
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| exasperate | to cause irritation or annoyance to |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| amend | to put right |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| endue | provide |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |