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 |
|---|---|
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| savant | a person of learning |
| resign | relegate |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |