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 |
|---|---|
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| brag | a pompous or boastful statement |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |