GRE Word List
MALEVOLENT
having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred
The meaning of the word malevolent is having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| mnemonic | assisting or intended to assist memory |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |