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 |
|---|---|
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| regal | of, relating to, or suitable for a king |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| pugilist | fighter |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| adjoin | to add or attach by joining |
| decipher | decode |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |