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 |
|---|---|
| assurance | the state of being assured: such as |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| behemoth | a mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |