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 |
|---|---|
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |