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 |
|---|---|
| vertex | the top of the head |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| retrench | cut down |
| choice | the act of choosing : selection |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |