GRE Word List
PUNITIVE
inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment
The meaning of the word punitive is inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| fabricate | invent |