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 |
|---|---|
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| boor | peasant |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |