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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|---|---|
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| fake | not true, real, or genuine : counterfeit |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| erotic | of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |