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 |
|---|---|
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| pandemic | occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |