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 |
|---|---|
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| obstreperous | marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| pastoral | of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| douse | to plunge into water |