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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diluteattenuate
casualtya military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
variegatedhaving discrete markings of different colors
nourishnurture
mountebanka person who sells quack medicines from a platform
trepidationa nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension
resoundto become filled with sound : reverberate
inveighto protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail
grumbleto mutter in discontent
exiguousexcessively scanty : inadequate