admonish
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To reprove or warn someone firmly but not harshly.
The chairman admonished the committee for missing successive deadlines.
Business verb
To reprove or warn someone firmly about their conduct.
The chair admonished the committee for approving related-party deals without proper scrutiny.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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