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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| intermediary | mediator |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| distant | separated in space : away |