GRE Word List
MALEFICIENT
doing evil; N. maleficience
The meaning of the word maleficient is doing evil; N. maleficience.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| uncouth | boorish; clumsy in speech or behavior; outlandish |
| sensuous | giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin |
| frenzied | madly excited; N. frenzy: violent wild excitement |
| coercion | use of force to get someone to object; compelling; V. coerce |
| conviction | judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief |
| premise | assumption; postulate; proposition upon which an argument is based |
| epaulet | ornament worn on the shoulder (of a uniform, etc.) |
| swindler | cheater |
| sway | swing from side to side; influence (someone) to change one's opinion; N. |
| pretentious | ostentatious; showy; pompous; making unjustified claims; overambitious; Ex. pretentious films that claim to be art |
