GRE Word List
MALIGNANT
tending to produce death or deterioration
The meaning of the word malignant is tending to produce death or deterioration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |