GRE Word List
MALICIOUS
hateful; spiteful; expressing malice; N. malice: desire to harm others; spite
The meaning of the word malicious is hateful; spiteful; expressing malice; N. malice: desire to harm others; spite.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flit | fly; fly or move lightly or quickly; dart lightly; pass swiftly by; Ex. a bee flitting from flower to flower |
| analogy | similarity; parallelism; comparing two similar things |
| impenitent | not repentant |
| genealogy | record of descent; lineage; ancestry; study of ancestry |
| regent | a person who governs in place of a ruler who is ill, absent, or still a child; ADJ. Ex. the Prince regent |
| cumulative | growing by addition; accumulative |
| fastidious | difficult to please; squeamish; fussy; finicky |
| prank | mischievous trick |
| quotidian | daily; commonplace; customary; Ex. quotidian routine |
| avocation | secondary or minor occupation |
