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 |
|---|---|
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
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| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
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| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
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