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.
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| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| hue | overall character or appearance to the mind : complexion |