GRE Word List
PESTILENTIAL
causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly
The meaning of the word pestilential is causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |