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 |
|---|---|
| tatter | to make ragged |
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health or well-being |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| decipher | decode |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |