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 |
|---|---|
| pudding | blood sausage |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |