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 |
|---|---|
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| exult | to be extremely joyful : rejoice |
| manifesto | a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |