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 |
|---|---|
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| clipper | one that clips something |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |