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 |
|---|---|
| adept | thoroughly proficient : expert |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| influx | a coming in |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
