GRE Word List
MALIGN
evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious
The meaning of the word malign is evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| parish | the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |