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 |
|---|---|
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| fructify | to bear fruit |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |