malefactor

       malefactor (n.) – a wrongdoer

for your edification:  In the world of helpful and sometimes dirty and often helpfully dirty ways to remember words that may appear on your SAT, men often get a bad rap.  (See:  mendacious; fallacious; boysblowchunks.)  This is another case of that.  Let’s examine this word together, shall we?  "Malefactor" consists of male and factor.  Essentially, our way to remember this one is that most wrongdoers share a common link:  the male factor.  Is it true that men are automatically wrongdoers because they are male?  No.  People with fallopian tubes can be wrongdoers, too; however, that piece of knowledge isn’t going to help you remember the definition of this word, now is it?  Didn’t think so. 

examplification  - Marjorie:  I’m so pissed.  Oxface McGillicutty and I both got caught cheating on our trig final, yet Principal Riggins only punished me with detention and a zero on the test.

Patty:  What?  That’s so lame.  Why? 

Marjorie:  Riggins said Oxface had an excuse – that the male factor played into his bad behavior.  He said being a dude automatically made him a wrongdoing malefactor.  As if some male factor is going to make you cheat on testes.

Patty:   The old ‘born with a penis’ excuse.  Ridiculous.   As though that should make any sort of vas deferens.

Marjorie:  There’s no inscrotable evidence to prove his stupid opeenion.

Patty:  Prostate up!