SSAT Synonyms Question 162: Answer and Explanation

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Question: 162

10. MALICE:

  • A. amusement
  • B. intelligence
  • C. pessimism
  • D. hatred

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

D

Malice means a desire to hurt or harm.

The Latin root mal means evil. The most famous use of malice may be in the closing lines of President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

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