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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| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
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| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| headlong | headfirst |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
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| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |