GRE Word List
BALEFUL
deadly or pernicious in influence
The meaning of the word baleful is deadly or pernicious in influence.
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|---|---|
| uproar | a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance |
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| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
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