GRE Word List
REPRIMAND
a severe or formal reproof
The meaning of the word reprimand is a severe or formal reproof.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| cipher | zero |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |