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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| clown | farmer |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| sibling | sib |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |