GRE Word List
MALADY
a disease or disorder of the animal body
The meaning of the word malady is a disease or disorder of the animal body.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| clarion | a medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones |
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
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| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |