GRE Word List
SINISTER
singularly evil or productive of evil
The meaning of the word sinister is singularly evil or productive of evil.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |
| slake | subside |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| venue | locale |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |