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 |
|---|---|
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| amalgam | a mixture of different elements |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| flashy | lacking in substance or flavor : insipid |
| invalid | not valid: |