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 |
|---|---|
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| dull | tedious |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| throes | pang |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| mendicant | beggar |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |