GRE Word List
MALEFACTOR
one who commits an offense against the law
The meaning of the word malefactor is one who commits an offense against the law.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mime | an ancient dramatic entertainment representing scenes from life usually in a ridiculous manner |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| restitution | an act of restoring or a condition of being restored: such as |
| collate | to compare critically |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| disconsolate | cheerless |