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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |