REPROBATE

PRONUNCIATION: (REP-ruh-bayt)

MEANING: adjective: Depraved.
noun: A wicked person.
verb tr.: To disapprove or condemn.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin reprobare (to disapprove), from re- + probare (to test, approve), from probus (good). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (forward), which also gave us paramount, prime, proton, prow, probative, probity, reproof, reprove, German Frau (woman), and Hindi purana (old). Earliest documented use: 1532.

NOTE: Remember, to reprobate does not mean to probate again.
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REPRONATE - turn your hand palm down, again

REPROGATE - political scandal at the Artificial Insemination center

REPROTATE - the art gallery sells prints of the collection in its gift shop