GRE Word List
MALEFICENT
working or productive of harm or evil : baleful
The meaning of the word maleficent is working or productive of harm or evil : baleful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |