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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brawl | to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |