Read the passage below and answer the question. the mother would regularly castigate the young boy in public. she would tell him his clothes were messy, she would yell that he was lazy, and she would make comments about his intelligence. using context clues, how would you define the meaning of the underlined word castigate in the passage? gently correct, sharply criticize, strongly compliment, lazily remark

it is true my friend

are you asking for an essay and whats the story?

most likely the answer would be a.) cupidity

definitions:

cupidity - greed for money or possessions

hydrophobia - extreme or irrational fear of water, especially as a symptom of rabies in humans

pathology - the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic

patho -   relating to disease