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 |
|---|---|
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| wreak | bring about |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |