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 |
|---|---|
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| politic | political |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |