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 |
|---|---|
| chafe | irritate |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| mural | of, relating to, or resembling a wall |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |