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 |
|---|---|
| minion | a servile dependent, follower, or underling |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| finale | the close or termination of something: such as |