GRE Word List
DELETERIOUS
harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way
The meaning of the word deleterious is harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| calorific | caloric |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |