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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|---|---|
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| outgoing | going away : departing |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| nutritious | nourishing |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| recourse | a turning to someone or something for help or protection |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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