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 |
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upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
affinity | relationship by marriage |
menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
junket | trip |
uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |