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 |
|---|---|
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| retiring | reserved |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |