GRE Word List

SINISTER

singularly evil or productive of evil

The meaning of the word sinister is singularly evil or productive of evil.

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WordMeaning
disconcertto throw into confusion
curfewthe sounding of a bell at evening
squelchto fall or stamp on so as to crush
corporealhaving, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as
gentryupper or ruling class : aristocracy
genesisthe origin or coming into being of something
willfulobstinately and often perversely self-willed
compatiblecapable of existing together in harmony
cumulativeincreasing by successive additions
caulkto stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)