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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optometrist | a specialist licensed to practice optometry compare ophthalmologist |
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whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
fussy | easily upset : irritable |
insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
disport | sport |
defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
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