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 |
|---|---|
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| rift | fissure |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |