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 |
|---|---|
| impediment | something that impedes |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |