GRE Word List
MALICIOUS
having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice
The meaning of the word malicious is having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| residual | remainder |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |