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 |
|---|---|
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| iniquitous | characterized by iniquity |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |