GRE Word List
BALEFUL
deadly or pernicious in influence
The meaning of the word baleful is deadly or pernicious in influence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |