GRE Word List
MALIGNANT
tending to produce death or deterioration
The meaning of the word malignant is tending to produce death or deterioration.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tread | to step or walk on or over |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
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| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| estimable | capable of being estimated |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |