新GRE词汇复习资料：malevolent

　　新GRE改革，词汇量减少20%，但在减少的同时，新GRE对词汇的考察也加大了一定的难度，以下是2014新GRE词汇复习资料。

　　1) characterized by ill will or hatred

　　2) having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred

　　malevolent ----- having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, or hatred

　　malevolent---malicious; evil; having or showing ill will: Some early American colonists saw the wilderness as malevolent and sought to control it.

　　Synonyms: evil, hateful, vicious, vindictive

　　malevolent well-meaning; polite, benevolent, benign, flattering, good

　　The novel grossly oversimplified the conflict as a struggle between relentlessly malevolent villains on one side and faultless saints on the other.

　　【近】 cruel, despiteful, evil, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vicious, virulent

　　【反】 benevolent, benign, benignant 善意的，和善的

　　【派】 malevolence n. 恶意，恶毒

　　His angry glare gave away his malevolent intentions.

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