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
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loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
reek | smoke |
unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
pedestrian | commonplace |
swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |