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 |
|---|---|
| impediment | something that impedes |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| docile | easily taught |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |