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.
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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