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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detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
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flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |
incubus | an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep |
upright | perpendicular |
vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |