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 |
|---|---|
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| cataract | a clouding of the lens of the eye or of its surrounding transparent membrane that obstructs the passage of light |
| rift | fissure |
| canny | clever |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |