GRE Word List
REPROVE
to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent
The meaning of the word reprove is to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gnome | maxim |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| maroon | a dark red |
| fluency | the quality or state of being fluent |
| vignette | a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |