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 |
|---|---|
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| remit | to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| stampede | a wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |