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 |
|---|---|
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| forebears | ancestor |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |