GRE Word List
BENIGN
of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life
The meaning of the word benign is of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |
| sleek | slick |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |