GRE Word List
BENEVOLENT
marked by or disposed to doing good
The meaning of the word benevolent is marked by or disposed to doing good.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| scoff | an expression of scorn, derision, or contempt : gibe |