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 |
|---|---|
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| foster | having, relating to, or being the relationship between a foster parent and the child who the foster parent cares for |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |