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 |
|---|---|
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| succor | relief |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| sublimate | sublime |