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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
